title: Occupational exposure and lung cancer.
abstract: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for male and the second most usual cancer for women after breast cancer. Currently there are available several non-specific cytotoxic agents and several targeted agents for lung cancer therapy. However; early stage diagnosis is still unavailable and several efforts are being made towards this direction. Novel biomarkers are being investigated along with new biopsy techniques. The occupational and environmental exposure to carcinogenic agents is an everyday phenomenon. Therefore until efficient early diagnosis is available, avoidance of exposure to carcinogenic agents is necessary. In the current mini-review occupational and environmental carcinogenic agents will be presented.
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Department-Oncology Unit, "G. Papanikolaou" General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;
authors.forename: Dionysios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Spyratos
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zarogoulidis
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Porpodis
authors.forename: Kosmas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsakiridis
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Machairiotis
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Katsikogiannis
authors.forename: Ioanna
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kougioumtzi
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dryllis
authors.forename: Anastasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kallianos
authors.forename: Aggeliki
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rapti
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zarogoulidis
keywords: Lung cancer; environmental exposure; occupational disease